return result from "update table set ID = ID + 1"

I'm working with a database someone else created. They have a table that stores the last identity number used. I'm trying to consume numbers in the same sequence that the other application does.

Is there a way to execute an update statement and get the result back that's absolutely foolproof? I don't care what the number is, I want to add one to it, then know what the number I justed created is.

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